Sentence examples similar to human pretence from inspiring English sources
Any pretence of human connection between the Americans and the Iraqis not characterised by ultraviolence or the threat of it is dismissed by one particular carefully crafted scene where the (anti?)hero sneaks out of the Green Zone to chase a suspect.
Such is the imbalance of the value of human life in a country which holds up the pretence that we all have the same right to life.
In some extraordinary circumstances, non-human animals have been known to feign interest or emotion, a type of pretence, in order to distract a rival from food or a mate.
"Some chat on the human condition, an affected writing style that pretends towards the clean and technically proficient, a pretence that summons up real characters and mixes them with others he has invented himself, a bit of publicity for a few consumer products".
But beyond admiring her authorial stance - "Let's talk about politics like we're human beings" - I was struck by how she also made political reporting so immediate by not making any pious pretence to objectivity.
Promises, pretence, subterfuge.
But the pretence is slipping.
But the pretence is wearing thin.
It makes no pretence to intelligence.
But not all pretence is culpable.
